Shingle-gage.



'No. 65I,266. f Patentad lune'b, I900. n. PHILLIPS 6 .1. ALTERMATT. snmsua GAGE.

(Application filed Mar. 27, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE PHILLIPS AND JOHN ALTERMATT, OF PERRYSBURG, OHIO.

SH ING LE GAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,266, dated June 5, 1900.

Application filed March 27, 1899.

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HORACE PHILLIPS and J 'OHN ALTERMATT, citizens of the United States, residing at Perrysburg, in the county of Wood and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Shingle-Gage, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved shingle-gage, the object being to provide an exceedingly cheap and simple appliance which can be easily adjusted for the purpose of holding a and Fig. 4 shows an adjustable attachment tothe device.

In carrying out our invention we employa suitably-sized block A, having ahandle B eX- tending therefrom, and a plate 0 is secured to the lower face of the block A and another plate D is arranged upon the upper face of the block, said plates being secured by means of the bolts E, which pass through the plates and block and are secured by nuts F.

The forward end of the plate O is tapered or sharpened, as shown at C, in order to pass readily beneath the top row of shingles, as most clearly shown in Fig. 1. The rear end of this plate is curved downwardly and provided with teeth, as shown at 0 which teeth are intended to be forced into the second row of shingles for the purpose of holding the device in place, it being understood that the plate 0 is shoved upbeneath the top row of shingles until the block A contacts with the lower edge of said row. The forward end of the plate D is curved upward, as shown at D, in order to facilitate the entrance of the gage-board G, which is arranged beneath the said plate D and rests against the block A, it being understood that two or more of our gage devices are employed, according to the length of the gage-board G and the number of such boards employed,and in Fig.1 we have Serial No. 710,694. (No model.)

shown a single gage-board held in place by two of our improved construction of gages. The shingles to be laid are meant to rest against the gage-board, as shown in Fig. 1, and after being nailed the gage-board and holders are removed and adjusted to the next tier of shingles and these operations continued until the shingling is completed.

Fig. 4: shows an essentially-rectangularshaped plate H attached to the block A by means of a bolt 1, passing through the longitudinal slots H, produced in the parallel members of the plate H, said bolt having a nut vI upon the end thereof in order to securely clamp the adjustable plate to the block. The purpose of this adjustable plate is to render the device adjustable to different widths of straight-edges, thereby enabling the device to be used in connection with different varieties of straight-edges.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a shingle-gage, the combination, with a block provided with two perforations and with a handle at one end, the other end being cut off square, of two plates upon opposite sides of the block, each plate being perforated near one end to register with the perforations of the block, the forward end of one of the plates being beveled and the rear end being curved downward and formed into teeth and the forward end of the other plate being curved upward, and two bolts through the perforations in the block and in the plates, substantially as described.

2. In a shingle-gage, the combination with a block, one end of which is rectangular in cross-section and the other one is formed into a handle, of two plates upon opposite sides of the block, the forward end of one of the plates being beveled and the rear end being curved downward and provided with teeth,

HORACE PHILLIPS. JOHN ALTERMATT.

Witnesses:

BERTHA PHILLIPS, CHAS. BAYER.

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